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My Rainforest Mind Map, Reasons of deforestation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - To harvest timber to create commercial items such as paper, furniture and homes
      - To harvest timber to create commercial items such as paper, furniture and homes
      - To create ingredients that are highly prized consumer items, such as the oil from palm trees
- - - - The primary layer which receives maximum sunlight. The leaves has tips that the allow rain water to fell to the soil instead of remaining on leaves .Maximum amount of animals also live in this layer as there is availability of food. Those animals include: snakes, toucans and treefrogs
    - - Understory
        
        Plants get little sunlight and so the leaves adapt themselves by growing broader leaves to trap more sunlight. Many animals live here including jaguars, red-eyed tree frogs and leopards and a lot of insects.
    - - Here, trees grow to a height of 200 feet and trunk of 16 to 20 feet. Trees have broad leaves and they are hard wood trees. Hard wood trees grow here.
    - - It is dark and shady but hot because the sunlight cannot penetrate the deep canopy and emergent layers and so it remains dark. Can increase the speed of decaying plants and form humus.
- - - - We can Identify a rainforest because of its various features, like that the range of temperature is low, there is high temperature throughout the year, there are no distinkt seasons in a rainfo
      - Where are rainforest found
- - - - Tubocurarine is a derivative of curare, which is obtained from the bark of a South American climbing vine. Indigenous peoples used curare, a powerful muscle relaxant, as a source of arrow poison. It was an effective hunting tool because, due to the properties of curare, an animal shot with the poison was still safe to ingest. ?
    - - Vincristine and Vinblastine are medicines used to treat different types of cancer and can be found on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines. These medications are linked to a flower native to Madagascar (aptly named the Madagascar Periwinkle)..
    - - Quinine is a muscle relaxant and the first effective medicine used to treat malaria. It was originally discovered by the Quechua, an indigenous group that still resides in Peru and Bolivia. The Quechua would mix the ground bark of cinchona trees with sweetened water to prevent shivering in cold weather.